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i followed yellowjkt’s directions except I used Flickr’s Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial filter to pick IMG_4894 (which really looks much better uncropped), by noswonky.
My quote was Ernest Hemmingway’s “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” (I think I’d heard that before and suppressed it, as I probably will again.) My random wiki page, […]

If you happen to have commented on this site on Friday afternoon, chances are your comment was swallowed up by the ether. Sorry ’bout that.
I’ve long maintained that the real measure of a webhost (or any service provider, really) is how they respond when things gang aft aglay. As far as I’m concerned, ServInt once […]

emmaSpam is just one more utterly pointless website offered up to the zeitgeist. But I built this one.

The odds of my having a best-music-of-2006 list I can live with by the end of first quarter 2007 are not looking good. Today I added two new candidates to the list.
The central problem, I think, is that 2006 was a year with a ton of extra base hits, but very few home runs (ooh! […]

via The Shy Turnip:

Each player of this game starts with “6 weird things about you”. Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 weird things as well as clearly state this rule. After you state your 6 weird things, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged […]

Why does this happen to me every year?? Most of my friends that pay attention to this sort of thing have already finished their year’s-best-music mixes. I still have a list of releases I have yet to hear but suspect could be contenders, and a list of records I’ve heard, but need to listen to […]

The Davis Square rockets are gone, and that makes me a little sad. I’m certainly glad I didn’t put off photographing them for another week.
I found Macolm Gladwell’s discussion of the negative ramifications of grafitti in The Tipping Point fascinating and thought-provoking, if not entirely convincing. (If you haven’t read the book, he argues — […]

Some administrative and technical changes were made to this site today (Sunday 23 October). Everything should work and look exactly as it did before, except now it should be easier to participate in discussions if you’re not someone I already know.
Please feel free to let me know if anything doesn’t seem to be working correctly.